Shiny Server – Earthshattering News

As you probably know, I am one of the strongest proponents of the Shiny package for developing interactive web applications

Amongst the latest news from RStudio is that what was planned to be commercial software will now be free and Open Source (AGPLv3 license)

To celebrate this momentous announcement, I have produced an Earthquake app. It was ‘inspired’ by a recent blog post which was quite interesting for a user with R installed and wanting to learn more about the maps package. Now, it starts to turn it into an app that can be used by anyone on the web, providing the user with options to vary time-period, earthquake magnitude and country of origin

Click for larger image. If Shiny/R had been invented 50 years ago I could have discovered Plate Tectonics!

I stress the “starts to turn it into an app” as this is what I will call a proof-of-concept app. There is so much out there to develop in this medium – and by far more proficient R developers – that I plan to initialize several Shiny apps that others can pick up and run with if they so desire. The gist for this app can be found here

Other than the fact that the selectable countries exclude Japan but include USSR there are several potential enhancements that came to me immediately